NNLO nucleon parton distributions from a light-cone quark model dressed with its virtual meson cloud

Abstract

A detailed study of nucleon parton distribution functions is performed within a radiative Next-to-Next-to Leading Order (NNLO) parton model whose low-scale input is rigidly described by wave functions which include quarks and dressing meson-cloud. The light-front Hamiltonian dynamics fixes the three-quark wave functions and the meson cloud is introduced by means of high-order Fock component in time-ordered perturbation theory in the infinite momentum frame. Non-strange as well as strange mesons-baryon fluctuations are considered ($\pi$, $\rho$, $\omega$, $K$ and $K^{\ast }$, together with $N$, $\Delta$, $\Lambda$ and $\Sigma$) and the effects on strange and non-strange parton distributions investigated showing the large effects due to (non-strange) sea asymmetries and the delicate balance of the strange asymmetry. The non-strange and the strange components, the valence as well as the gluon distributions are compared with available experimental data confirming the need of both non-perturbative degrees of freedom and perturbative (NNLO) radiative effects.

Text updated, references added, three figures replaced, version to be published in Physical Review D

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